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Awesome, that.

Well, it would help if we got to play against the Browns. If you remember our very own defensive shut-out game a couple-few years ago....

The second half was Pennington feasting on his bread and butter. The D can only do so much against it.

Ehh.... I think they punt there rather than go for 50+ on a day like today. If I knew it was going to be a fake, I'm sure Mangini did too. But, agreed that the fake (and 4th down call) took wind out of our sails.

The defense didn't do enough?!? Sorry to be the partypooper, but in the 2nd half the defense has a winning case for nonsupport. Shouldn't expect them to be able to pitch shutouts every week while JP's working out the kinks.

The D has historically had a problem getting anywhere near Pennington. He does a great job of dumping the ball off to someone. One of the many things that haven't gone right today.

No link online yet, but in the Oct issue, there's a great article on the hunt for artifacts stolen from the Iraq National Museum in the days after the invasion. There's a book written by the subject of this article, Col. Matthew Bogdanos, called "Theives of Baghdad." He's called the Indiana Jones of Baghdad. I remember at the time, seeing the looters even while we were in Baghdad and shaking my head that we weren't doing anything about it. Priceless works were irreparably damaged. In hindsight, there was less stolen than previously thought --- ~14,000 pieces. In the article, the AL asks Bogdanos about the lack of security at the INM, and he went into a tangent about archaeologists for the last 20 years staying mum about atrocities.... Interesting to find out now that stolen antiquities smuggling is a source of $ for the terrorist activities since we've clamped down on the traditional funneling of funds.

You know, there's a reading of that poem (I think it was in that show "Ed" a few years back) that says Frost was trying to say how alienated we are from our neighbors, how we put up walls to keep other people out... That reading has no merit to anyone who has ever built/repaired a stone wall with another person. I've done stonemasonry since grad. Defining the borders (literal and figurative) of our space for a few hours while working together is not a bad thing.

I propose that you use my uncle's method. And wait until they're doing something in the yard so they see you. Sometimes you have to be blunt to get the message across.

He apparently had a touch of the bug. Whichever way it was, I wouldn't wanna be the one to clean the toilet bowl.

There's something else that stops after you get married, too....

Me neither, but that's probably it. The bar buddy is probably thinking of Keith Byars.

Hope it's just Nature calling.

It's not so much an issue of whether the neighbor is doing the work for you --- it verges on squatter's rights. If you allow that, there's many people who won't hestiate to plant things there, or park their car there, or.... The issue is that it's your property, not theirs. My uncle had a similar problem w/ neighbors mowing into his yard. One day while he was mowing and the neighbors were out in their yard, he veered off into their perfectly-cut, straight-line lawn, did a squiggly line across, did a loop and steered back and finished his own yard. What was so funny is he did it very nonchalantly. 'Course, he's a Vietnam vet on full mental disability, so not caring and being a little lot crazy helps insofar as potential repercutions. You should've seen the look on the neighbors' faces. My neighbor is a lipstick-and-makeup state trooper with a great posterior. She can do whatever she wants.

I don't think Butkus bears much, if any, responsibility even if he felt he does. Every player takes those risks when they go on the field, then and now. If Hughes felt something was wrong, he sh/wouldn't have stayed in. Kotite was one link in a long string of disasters by the Jests. Mistakes of which they're repeating today. I don't mind that, tho. NY Times abstract....

A Wiki search on Chuck Hughes.... Perhaps the mere presence of Butkus in his vicinity caused the heart attack? I remember Bruce's hit on Boomer. He was lying on the turf like a sack of potatoes. Didn't even want to move and probably didn't know who he was, nevermind where. IIRC the Jets coach was Rich Kotite.

The Patriettes have equipment managers, but they just let Randy Cross and Phil Simms prepare Tom Brady's balls. P.S. Why is this 'Off the Wall'?

Then again, we couldn't either.

He shares notes with Pat Kirwan. If JP plays horribly this season, they can say they told us so. If JP plays excellently, they'll say they liked this kid all along and knew he'd be an NFL talent from the start. It's the same BS. What I don't get is why so many people bother to spend their precious breath reading that crap.

Puhonix, Too bad those pics are for their Match.com profiles!

Agreed, with the correction that the coup happened in '99. He didn't announce himself as President until '01, but for all intents and purposes he was in charge of Pakistan and the military. Pardoning Khan in exchange for cooperation was a political move Musharraf probably had to make. Another note on the topic, I would add that I'd like to see Armitage face some kind of penalty for divulging the information he did, even if it was inadvertant. Things like that can't go unpunished. Scooter Libby will be on trial for perjury and Armitage gets nothing? Not right.

Toilet paper stuck to your shoe at a job interview is embarrassing. Two women wearing the same dress is embarrassing. Your dog crapping in your neighbor's lawn while he's having a family cookout is embarrassing. Having your nuclear program sold to one of the world's biggest bullies on your watch is at least an 'Oh sh--!' moment... and to most people would be a big wake-up call that you'd better get control over it right quick. Musharraff seems to be a friend in an unfriendly world. He faces internal pressures that boggle the mind as to how he stays in power.... Three assassination attempts by extremeists. It's in his interest to cooperate. Whether it was Armitage's threat that lit a fire under his butt to cooperate all the more, whatever. That's called the Stick. Other times we use the carrot. What can you say?

Just barely.

Premiere is 4 October. There'll be 6 eps in a row, then a hiatus for 13(?) weeks, then they're running all new eps 'til the end. None of last season's on-again-off-again show-the-first-five-eps-ten-times skips. Which I think is a very good decision. Anyone seen the recent ads for the new season, ie Jack facing a wall of water? Looks like the pace picks up.